Saturday 13th April: AGM & Lecture, Penarth

The AGM talk will be given by Dr Andy King, on Opening disused quarries for building stone extraction. A major problem with obtaining small amounts of new stone for remedial and conservation work is that it is seldom possible or worthwhile to obtain standard Planning Permission for small-scale extraction jobs from old quarries. Some planning authorities have been more enlightened than others, and may permit the taking of small quantities of original stone for heritage works. Andy King has worked extensively on the building stones of Somerset, where a wide variety of different stone types have been traditionally used on a village by village scale.

Lunch will be taken locally. After lunch there will be a tour of the building stones of Penarth led by Dr Christian Baars.

Saturday 18th May: Pembroke & Haverford Priory

Leaders: John Davies & Jana Horák
Meet 11.00 Pembroke town car park, south side of main street (SM 984013). The morning will be spent in Pembroke, followed by lunch locally and the afternoon at Haverford Priory.

Saturday 8th /Sunday 9th September: Building stones of Flintshire and the Vale of Clwyd

We will focus on St Asaph on the Saturday afternoon, and Denbigh and Ruthin on the Sunday, taking in some of the village churches as well with luck and time. Members will responsible for arranging their own accommodation.

Meeting details of each excursion will be published on the Forum web site please inform the Field Secretary (Tim Palmer, tjp@abet.ac.uk or tel. 01970 627107) of meetings you will be attending.

In AD 75, the Romans built a fortress at Caerleon that would guard the region for over 200 years. Today at the National Roman Legion Museum you can learn what made the Romans a formidable force and how life wouldn't be the same without them.